{"id":25159,"date":"2026-08-09T07:15:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25159"},"modified":"2026-08-09T07:15:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T07:15:54","slug":"mario-kart-64-in-vr-is-not-for-the-queasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25159","title":{"rendered":"Mario Kart 64 In VR Is Not For The Queasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"subtitle\">With a headset on, you are the kart.<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">The Image Party\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>Mario Kart 64<\/em> expertly translated Nintendo&#8217;s racing series to 3D when it was released in 1997, but what if you could get up even more close and personal with its polygonal tracks and karts? A new VR mod for the game, spotted by X user BeardoBenjo, appears to do that by effectively placing you in the game.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">BeardoBenjo&#8217;s post includes a clip of the game&#8217;s Koopa Troopa Beach track, and a (fairly nauseating) first-person, head-tracked view of its tunnel shortcut. The game&#8217;s simplistic visuals have a certain added charm in VR, but more importantly, viewing everything in first-person conveys a sense of speed <em>Mario Kart 64<\/em>&#8216;s original third-person view just can&#8217;t capture. In VR, it quite literally looks like you&#8217;re zooming down the beach head-first, rather than in your kart.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I can now hit my favourite shortcut in Mario Kart 64 in glorious first person VR \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is happening with VR modding this year \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/onx6DzJlg6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/onx6DzJlg6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beardo Benjo (@BeardoBenjoYT) August 5, 2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The mod project was created by developer RaYRoD TV, who&#8217;s made multiple mods that bring classic games into virtual reality including <em>Banjo-Kazooie<\/em> and <em>Star Fox 64<\/em>. The <em>Mario Kart 64<\/em> mod is based on an existing PC port of the racing game called SpaghettiKart. It&#8217;s available for free to download and install from GitHub, provided you already own a <em>Mario Kart 64<\/em> ROM or are willing to dump one from a physical cartridge. Besides getting the game up and running in PC VR headsets, the mod also adds a VR options menu that lets you adjust things like stereo depth, your eye height and the placement of the game&#8217;s HUD.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Nintendo hasn&#8217;t shown much interest in VR outside of the rudimentary stereoscopic visuals of the Virtual Boy and a one-off Nintendo Labo kit. If you&#8217;re nostalgic for the Nintendo 64 and have a VR headset collecting dust, there are certainly worse ways to spend a weekend. Just don&#8217;t eat before.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2232798\/mario-kart-64-in-vr-is-not-for-the-queasy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a headset on, you are the kart. &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The Image Party\/Shutterstock Mario Kart 64 expertly translated Nintendo&#8217;s racing series to 3D when it was released in 1997, but what if you could get up even more close and personal with its polygonal tracks and karts? 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